Professor Siobhan Lambert-Hurley (University of Sheffield) is a historian of modern South Asia. Her research on women, gender, and Islam has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the AHRC, the British Academy, HEFCE, and the Social Studies and Humanities Research Council of Canade. She is the author of Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia (Stanford University Press, 2018) and Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal (Routledge, 2007), and co-author of Atiya’s Journeys: A Muslim Woman from Colonial Bombay to Edwardian Britain (Oxford University Press, 2010). She has co-edited several volumes, including Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance and Autobiography in South Asia (Duke University Press, 2015) and A Princess’s Pilgrimage: Nawab Sikandar Begum’s A Pilgrimage to Mecca (Indiana University Press, 2008).
Her recent research explores food, memory, and heritage in Muslim South Asia, leading to Forgotten Foods: Memories and Recipes from Muslim South Asia (Picador India, 2023). She currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for her project A Bountiful Spread: Eating and Etiquette in Muslim South Asia.